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Comment Re:The important details: Slower and over 540$ (Score 1) 75

Depends on the AMD chip. I have a box that serves as a NAS and HTPC with an AMD Fusion E-350, which is one of their lower-power chips. Maximum power consumption is 18W for the CPU and GPU. The GPU works fine for decoding HD video (on FreeBSD, presumably it's as good on Linux). It's now around 4-5 years old and the only reason that I'm considering replacing it is that the motherboard can only handle 8GB of RAM, which isn't enough for ZFS deduplication with a 12TB pool.

Comment Re:Scripts that interact with passwords fields aws (Score 3, Interesting) 365

JavaScript can also intercept the contents of the clipboard. If you're blocking password managers, then people are going to do one of two things. Either they'll pick a (weak) easy-to-remember password, or they'll use a password manager and paste the password in. If they opt for the latter, then any malicious ad on the page can grab the password while it's in the clipboard...

Comment Re:No kidding. (Score 1) 259

During your rant, I couldn't help but think, 'But they DO have a standardized app for accessing all the websites', and it's called the browser!

I think that you're slightly missing the grandparent's point. About 10-15 years ago, there were two groups pushing new directions for the web. One group, led mostly by the W3C (though backed by Apple and a few other big companies) wanted to completely separate content and presentation. You'd have a service that would provide structured XML and then a web page or a native app that would process it and present it to the user. This would make it easy to write programs that aggregated data from multiple sources (e.g. find bus, train and flight times and prices so that you can find out the cheapest or most convenient route from A to B, including getting to and from different airports).

The other faction, led by Google, wanted to completely destroy this separation and make web pages into rich web apps that would ensure that you could only view the content in exactly the form that the authors intended. The main goal of this was to make it hard to distinguish content from ads and therefore make it hard to automatically remove ads.

Unfortunately, the second group mostly won. The grandparent seems to want people to go back to the other approach and present machine-readable data feeds so that we can then have rich client-side apps that are agnostic to the source, but present the data as the user wants. I'd like that too.

Comment Re:FreeBSD (Score 1) 66

PC-BSD occasionally picks some patches to apply on top of a stock FreeBSD, but they try to keep it fairly small. I suspect that they're unlikely to pick up these for several reasons. First, there are still some random segfaults in applications caused by these patches that are not yet diagnosed. Second, the HardenedBSD team doesn't have a great track record for security, for example merging some insecure random number generator patches that were under review for FreeBSD and rejected over security issues and shipping them in production. Third, since the Blind ROP work from Stanford, ASLR is largely discredited as a security feature - it's a nice checkbox feature, but it doesn't really buy you much against a determined attacker. Fourth, the last iteration of the patches still had some very odd decisions about the interfaces for turning ASLR on and off (they also had a number of lock-order reversals, which are hopefully fixed in the latest version).

Comment Re:i haven't bought a car in a while... (Score 1) 252

I can tell you live in a city (Apartments etc)
Why?
When you live in the less dense parts of cities/burbs etc, you car DOES drop you at your door already, it is called a garage or a driveway. It stops, it is there when you walk out the door with no calls, no "There is no car available right now, you will have to wait 20 minutes" (which means you will always have to plan to leave early - trust me, used to use a car service). Yes, when you go into "the city" it will be easier to park but

Comment Re:Futurologists and transportation. (Score 1) 252

Other things people hate about public transport:
There are a LOT of people who DON'T live in a city, they live in suburbs, ex-urbs or gasp, the country. Public transport is often 1/hr in the suburbs, and at that, may come as "close" as a mile or two to where you live. Live out in the country, where you next neighbor is a mile down the road (or further) the whole car sharing thing becomes a joke

Bug

The OpenSSH Bug That Wasn't 55

badger.foo writes: Get your facts straight before reporting, is the main takeaway from Peter Hansteen's latest piece, The OpenSSH Bug That Wasn't. OpenSSH servers that are set up to use PAM for authentication and with a very specific (non-default on OpenBSD and most other places) setup are in fact vulnerable, and fixing the configuration is trivial.

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